Chapter 129 His alluring blue eyes are captivating and unpredictable...
After a barrage of punches and kicks, and a desperate struggle, I put on my robe and got out of bed.
He didn't bother me anymore, and with a smile, he put on his clothes. "You have two choices now: either leave with me, or I stay here. If you don't want to choose either, I'm sorry, you have no choice."
I turned around coldly. "Who do you think you are? And what are you to me?"
“I will be your husband, your only husband.” He walked up to me. “No matter who signs the marriage certificate with you, I will be your husband.”
I scoffed, "What a big mouth! You haven't even asked who my husband is."
"Even if it's the Elf King, I won't back down." The corners of his mouth turned up slightly, exuding a bewitching and alluring beauty.
“Not the Elf King,” I said.
"Oh, who is it?"
I refused to say. “It doesn’t matter if you don’t say,” he smiled ambiguously. “Who he is isn’t important. What’s important is where you are.”
As dawn broke, before he left, I couldn't help but ask, "How did you know the mouse... was me? And how did you find me?"
He chuckled. "Before even entering the Western Border, I received news of Di Yaruo's arrival and learned that her uncle was planning to strangle her. I simply sent people to monitor her movements, as is customary among nobles. Heirs and potential heirs of all nations and independent capitals are kept under surveillance. I didn't expect to learn that she had turned into a rat to evade pursuit—she actually possessed a rat-transformation talisman—and that you and she had met at the inn. I immediately took on border affairs and came to the Western Border. But soon, I lost contact with you again. Di Yaruo is clever; she knows exactly how to shake off surveillance."
What followed seemed quite clear. Upon learning of Diya's secret meeting with the people of the Southern Border, he guessed it might be related to the contract. He went to the palace and bumped into me, now a rat. He said he had never seen such clear eyes in a rat, "A rat couldn't possibly have eyes like that." He gazed at me tenderly.
"Why didn't you ever think that it was Di Yaruo who turned into a rat?" I asked, puzzled.
“Di Ya Ruo was negotiating with the people from the Southern Territory at the time, trying to increase the reward. How could she possibly be in the garden of the Western Territory?” He laughed heartily. “It could only be you. Di Ya Ruo still trusts you quite a bit, and only you had the ability to sneak into the secret room. Naturally, she would only turn you into a rat.”
"You're just going to let us get the contract, no, remember the contract?" This is a contract signed between the Western and Eastern territories. If Diya were to sell the contents of the contract to the Southern Territory, it would harm the interests of the Western Territory.
"Didn't I stop it?" His bewitching blue eyes were enigmatic. "I just couldn't stop it. Even if my father or godfather finds out something someday, it won't be my fault. It can only be said that there is a traitor in the Western Territory. Even the Secret House couldn't keep the contract."
I looked at him in surprise. "Do you hope that this trade between the East and West will fall through?"
He looked at me in surprise, "How did you suddenly become so smart?"
Otherwise, why would he allow us to trade the contract contents?
As I escaped onto the large cart leading out of the palace, I overheard the cart puller and the vegetable deliveryman at the side gate talking: "Didn't we always deliver from the north gate? Why are we doing it from the south gate today?"
"The higher-ups said the weather has been bad these past two days. The north gate is a windy spot with strong winds, and they were worried about damaging the vegetables, so they changed it to the south gate."
"Will we change the gate to the south gate from now on?"
"No, we'll use the north gate when the weather gets better."
I didn't think much of it at the time, but now that I think about it, someone must have seen me hiding in the bushes near the south gate and tried to get the delivery truck to pass by so I could jump on it and escape.
Otherwise, how could it be such a coincidence? The vegetables that were always delivered to the north gate are now being delivered to the south gate.
I looked at him, my eyes shifting between light and shadow. "Was it you who helped me leave the palace?"
"yes."
"You noticed me a long time ago?"
"yes."
"How was it discovered?"
“It’s just a mouse, there’s still a way to deal with it.” Seeing me staring at him, he explained with a smile, “I had the guards find a cat that’s very good at catching mice, and they went to find the mouse. Then they gagged the cat so it wouldn’t scare the mouse. Your features are very obvious; there’s a red rope around your neck that I tied myself. Even if you manage to break most of it off, the part closest to your neck is still very difficult to remove.”
"It was also my way of getting the guards at the secret room away for a short while. The secret room has no door; if you pay attention from the outside, you can see a rat carrying a contract in the corner. After you escaped, I sent people to follow you, and they naturally found out where you were staying."
"Why are you doing this to help us get the contract details?" I asked him.
"You ask so many questions. If it were anyone else, I would have lost my patience long ago." He gently rubbed my hair, and I frowned.
“Alright, I’ll tell you,” his blue eyes gleamed, “because the contract was signed by the Yod family.”
He and his godfather seem to have fallen out, so he wants to sabotage things.
But since they are both from the East, he will undermine the interests of the East.
But what does that have to do with me? So I didn't ask any more questions.
"I'm a bit busy these days and might not be able to come, but wait for me, I'll definitely come to find you," he said to me before leaving.
Freezing rain started again, and the indoor temperature dropped significantly.
"Is there any way to prevent people from kidnapping me? To prevent me from being easily taken away?" I asked Di Yaruo as I sat in front of the fireplace.
“Yes.” Di Yaruo took a bite of dry bread. “If you hold an official position, it’s the same as a man’s status, and a man can’t easily take you away.”
"How so?" I took a sip of hot water.
"On this continent, even if a woman is not a slave, she can easily be taken as a mistress by a nobleman. However, if the woman holds an official position, such as the chief steward of the royal palace or the chief steward of the royal city, it is assumed that she has a high status and cannot be taken away without permission. Otherwise, it would be an insult to the entire noble circle—the reputation of the nobles is inviolable, and it would also make the monarch of the country lose face—if he cannot even protect a woman of high status, he will order an investigation into the nobleman who abducted her. Not only will he be barred from entering the noble circle of his country, but in severe cases, he will not even be allowed to set foot on his country's territory. He will also be looked down upon by the nobles of his own country because it was too impolite."
I was somewhat skeptical. "What if someone takes a fancy to a woman with an official position and insists on taking her away regardless of the consequences?"
Di Yaruo looked at me with a smile, "No one will confront her head-on. They will choose another path, such as bribing a woman of high status with money, stripping her of her official position, or using others to demote her to a commoner and then taking her away."
Seeing that I remained silent, Di Yaruo stood up. "If you help me take back the royal city, I will appoint you as my royal palace steward, granting you a high-ranking status that I will not easily relinquish."
“I don’t know if I can help,” I stood up as well, “but I can give it a try.”
Two days later, the vassal capital closest to the largest independent capital in the western border was captured. The speed of the attack left everyone speechless.
The eldest princess of the once largest royal city led 10,000 mercenaries in a midnight raid, breached the city gates, and quickly poured into the city, killing all the guards. The eldest princess, dressed in black armor and riding a pure black warhorse, charged into the palace with a fierce and murderous aura. She beheaded the king of the royal city with a single sword stroke and threw his twelve mistresses and one wife into the fire, burning them to ashes.
Why did the city fall so quickly? Because the city gates were breached extremely fast.
Just as night fell, a group of thugs suddenly arrived at the city gate, shouting that their master had proposed to a wealthy widow in the capital that morning but had been rejected. They claimed that their master was handsome and wealthy, and that being rejected by a widow was a great humiliation, so they had come to settle scores with the widow.
The city guards were not about to open the gates for this matter, and an argument broke out between them and the thugs below. The thugs, who had come prepared, started throwing rotten eggs and dog excrement at the guards when they couldn't win the argument. The guards, enraged, fired arrows at them, giving the thugs even more reason to cause trouble. They called for more people to join them in protesting below the city walls, determined to get justice.
The matter escalated, alarming the Grand Steward of the capital. When the Grand Steward appeared on the city wall, the young and beautiful widow also appeared. The widow explained that she hadn't refused, but only said she would consider it. The thugs insisted that she had refused and threw rotten eggs at her. Hit several times, the widow began to cry.
The thugs continued to curse and even brought more rotten eggs and dog excrement, insisting that the widow come out of town to apologize.
The Grand Steward of the capital declared that the city gates must not be opened at midnight, which only emboldened the thugs. They even brought in a makeshift catapult and launched dog excrement at the Grand Steward. Finally enraged, the Grand Steward resolved to teach them a lesson. He ordered the side gate opened and sent out a squad of guards to give the thugs a sound beating.
To everyone's surprise, as soon as the side gate opened, a group of well-trained mercenaries emerged from the shadows, charging in with shouts and killing, wiping out the entire guard squad. They then swiftly opened the main city gate, and even more mercenaries flooded in, sweeping through the city's guards. The city's Grand Steward, as if waking from a dream, frantically tried to mobilize all the city's guards, but it was too late. The mercenaries had entered the city, their momentum already overwhelming.
That night, the sounds of fighting and shouting shook the heavens and the earth. The 20,000 guards protecting the royal city were routed, and every street, every road, and every alley was filled with blood. The royal palace was also washed clean of blood, and the stench of blood permeated the entire place.
When reinforcements from the largest royal city rushed to the scene, the gates of this subordinate royal city were already closed. They shouted outside the city, demanding that Di Ya Ruo come out and face her death, their voices growing louder and louder, but Di Ya Ruo completely ignored them.
“My 20,000 mercenaries will arrive in two days. As long as we hold out for these two days, we will be safe,” Di Ya Ruo said coldly, standing on the highest tower of the palace.
"How far is it from here to your uncle's capital?" I asked.
"Very close."
"Send out five thousand mercenaries to quickly build an underground tunnel that leads directly to the largest royal city. Then the mercenaries can use the tunnel to attack the city." I heard an even louder shout coming from afar.
“I never expected you to have so many ingenious ideas,” Di Yaruo exclaimed. “The idea of breaking down a door after a widow’s marriage proposal is also yours.”
"It wasn't my idea; I referenced this method from a book I read before." In the modern world, I read a book about the Middle Ages that included a story about a man who was rejected in a marriage proposal and was subsequently attacked and his bride took over a small town.
“But the secret passage method you mentioned would probably take a long time, and I’m afraid it’s not practical,” Di Yaruo said.
“Let’s stall,” I said. “Pretend we’re surrounded and trapped, and let the 20,000 mercenaries lie in wait outside the city for a few days.”
The vassal city closest to the largest independent capital is surrounded by mountains on three sides and has a large river in the middle. It has extremely strong defensive capabilities and held up the army of the largest capital's lord, who is also Di Yaruo's uncle, for more than ten days.
With time running out, the secret passage was barely completed.
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